“The objective of the conference is to bring together young and senior academics, representatives from public organizations, companies, ngo’s and governments together with artists, designers and developers to discuss and create visions for online social networks in which privacy, security, and other user needs are addressed.

During the conference possible strategies for addressing privacy and security needs in online social networks will be explored by experts on these matters. Specifically, technical, social, educational and legal measures will be discussed that can be used to increase the accountability of social network sites in order to mitigate the “responsibilization” of end-users (SPION project) and to empower users (EMSOC project).”